Private HE institutions face ban on teaching in Russian

The Education and Science Ministry of Latvia is proposing to apply to private universities and colleges the same restrictions that apply to state higher education institutions, where students have to be taught in Latvian or any of the official languages of the European Union, which means that private institutions would not be permitted to teach their students in Russian, reports The Baltic Times.

According to amendments to the Law on Institutions of Higher Education proposed by the Education and Science Ministry, universities and colleges whose study programmes are taught in languages that do not meet the requirements laid down in the law will have to discontinue these programmes once their accreditation period ends.

According to the Education and Science Ministry's report on higher education in 2017, approximately one-third of students at private universities and colleges studied in Russian last year, while the proportion at state-funded universities and colleges was less than 1%.
Full report on The Baltic Times site